Dear Westlit,

I've somehow got it into my head that the performance/reading/invocation of
Shakespeare has become something of a cliché in westerns, but at the moment
I can only come up with My Darling Clementine, the St. Crispian's Day speech
performed in Tombstone, and the death of the old actor in Deadwood (they do
lines from Lear as he passes). This is for an essay I'm working on--I'm
interested in scenes that show Shakespeare in performance or where his lines
are quoted. I'm not so interested in time/place shifting adaptations such as
Johnny Hamlet or Patrick Stewart's King of Texas. If anyone can point me
toward further references and scenes of this ilk that you all might be
willing to point me toward would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,  - Nic


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Nicolas Witschi
Associate Chair and
Associate Professor
Department of English
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5331
269-387-2604
269-387-2562 (fax)
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~nwitschi
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